Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy's for human rights abuses
The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
Presidential hopefuls on so-called 'free trade' pacts
Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
Layoffs continue as newspaper workers continue fight for fair wages, job security
"They've been treating the workforce like something they can just ignore."
This week in women’s history: Militant furriers strike successfully in 1926
Some 10,000 women workers in the needle trades, mostly Jewish and Italian, took to the New York City streets to demand higher wages.
The case against Uber
Many people are beginning to question, and think twice, about safety concerns with Uber.
Nation’s top labor leader calls Trump an “anti-American bigot”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka challenged Donald Trump's appeal to working class voters.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds N.J. Gov. Christie’s worker pension cuts
Now, the future of public workers' pensions in New Jersey may well be up to the Garden State's voters.
Minnesotans lose millions through rampant wage theft
An investigation by Workday Minnesota found wage theft in Minnesota is larger and more widespread than most people realize - and the problem is growing.
“New York is a union town!” Bröd Kitchen workers fight back
Workers and activists flooded the sidewalk surrounding Bröd Kitchen's West Village location in response to its latest slew of retaliatory firings.
